Data Accounting

Manohara Reddy Bathina

SAP FICO Lead

281-***-**** (C)

adjef9@r.postjobfree.com

Summary:

•Having 17 years of experience out of which 13+ years of SAP FI/CO experience with 5 end to end implementation /enhancement project and support.

•Interacted with client business users for requirement gathering and analysis of existing business processes and prepared business Blueprint document and functional design document/development

SAP Experience Summary:

Worked on SAP New GL functionality with ECC 6.0 and knowledge of New GL including its functionalities for Document splitting.

Requirements gathering, AS-IS and TO-BE processes study, preparation of Business Blueprint.

Financial Accounting: Configuration of FI-Enterprise structure, FI-Global Settings, FI-GL (General Ledger), FI-AR (Accounts Receivables), FI-AP (Accounts Payable), FI- AA, Bank settings, Interest, Taxes, Dunning, Substitution and Validation, Automatic Payment Program, and New-General Ledger activation/configuration.

Knowledge in Manual BRS and EBS Statement and configuration.

Worked on supporting with Vendor Invoice Management module in various projects.

Asset Accounting: External acquisition, AUC, Asset classes, Chart of Depreciation, Depreciation Areas, Cost account assignment, transfer, retirement and sale of asset, account determination.

Lockbox: Configured lockbox and tested the lockbox program for accounts receivables payments in BAI2 format.

Knowledge in FSCM modules Collection, dispute, and credit management.

Worked on treasury modules Cash and liquidity, IHC and transaction management.

Worked on end-to-end implementation project S/4 HANA 1610 Broad green pictures.

Worked on LTMC Migration cockpit to load trial balance of legacy business units and used for various master data creation.

I have worked on S/4 HANA 1709 for client Cantel in writing functional specs for banking interfaces ACH, WIRE, CHECK and Positive pay.

Proficient in design and configuration of CO sub-modules Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting, Internal Orders, Profit Center accounting.

SAP implementation experience covering various facets of ERP implementation like Documentation (BBP), Configuration, Core user training, Test scripts, data migration, functional co-ordination for the project and post-implementation support.

Exposure to SAP Tools like –BDC, validation & Substitutions exits.

Good interpersonal skills, good presentation skills and good team member.

Education Qualification:

•Bachelor of Commerce

•M.B.A from Tamilnadu Open university

Certification:

•SAP Certified Application Associate- SAP S/4 HANA for Financial Accounting (1709)

Technical Skills:

ERP Systems : SAP R/3, FI/CO Module

Operating System : Ms-Dos, Win98, me, 2003 Server, Windows XP

Applications : MS –office

Work Experience Summary:

Currently working with Flexera global Inc.

Worked as senior functional consultant with Capgemini India Pvt.ltd.

Worked as FI/CO consultant in Colgate Global Business services Pvt. Ltd.

Worked as FI/CO consultant in Parle Agro Pvt. Ltd.

Worked as Accounts executive in Banjara Cements Ltd.

Work Experience:

October 2019 to till date 2020

Holly Frontier Corporation, Dallas TX

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Area of Work: SAP ECC6, FI- GL, AP, AR, AA, CO, and Vendor Invoice Management

Responsibilities:

Worked on EBS configuration with Bank of America along with creation of search strings for the purpose of assigning single external transaction types to multiple posting rules.

Configured payment program for ACH and WIRE payments.

Imparted training to End users and power users in APP run to generate IDOC, validate the segments and to verify the beneficiary account details.

Provided support on production issues in the areas of GL, AR, AP, AA, VIM and controlling.

Working closely with workflow consultant to fix the workflow related issues creating event by using SWUE through using FFID access.

Working with EY audit team to provide data requirement for each quarter with combining multiple tables by using SAP query in S/4 HANA data base system.

Worked on internal project to restructuring authorization groups and user level access to control authorization group add the posting period authorization (authorization object F_BKPF_BUP) levels maintained in period openings.

Worked closely with security team to add major transactions to the FFID roles to avoid using FFID access in production environment.

Worked closely business requirement on changing financial statement version changes and creating new versions from scratch.

Worked on creating credit control areas, risk categories and customer credit groups and changing credit check options and changing credit representative groups for triggering email notifications.

Monitored month end and year end activities closely with business users followed cookbook steps for the specified client.

Work Experience:

March 2018 to September 2019

Rowan companies, Houston, TX

SAP FICO Lead

Area of Work: SAP ECC6, FI- GL, AP, AR, AA, CO, VIM and Loan Management

Responsibilities:

Leading a team of five functional consultants; facilitating functional workshops driving out the business requirements and industry standards.

Involved in day-to-day support issues with areas of SD, MM, VIM, FI-GL, AP AR, AA Controlling and loan management.

Creation of New Company Code in SAP to facilitate recording business transactions.

Closely working with business team in gathering required information for developing new interface inbound and outbound with external software.

Working on EBS configuration and testing with HSBC Bank for auto reconciliation purpose on day-to-day Bank statements.

Working on Rig Moves from one location to another location.

Creation of partner profile and EDI compatible payments to send outbound in the form of EDI.

Involved in unit and integration testing with the business user, prepared test scripts for day in live and use as reference guide.

Closing working with asset team to record depreciation on each asset and creating new asset class.

Monitoring day to day jobs and fixing issues on priority basis for smooth flow of business transactions.

Imparted training to End users and power users in APP run to generate IDOC, validate the segments and to verify the beneficiary account details.

Worked on DMEE payment file process (XML) with Wire.

Involving in checking the issues raised in Service now ticketing tool and providing the proper solutions by doing required configuration with system and testing the process thoroughly to avoid the repetition of same issue.

Helping the sales and distribution team to place the billing invoices and fixing the material master issues like proper accounting code allotment and extending material to the newly created sales organization.

Assisting the business user in exchange rate issues with many other currencies and helping in creating new currency fairs as and when the company deals with new currency.

Helping intercompany loan department in creation of loan contract and getting the approvals from the top management to disperse loan amount to the respective intercompany vendors.

April 2017 to Feb 2018

Cantel Medical Corp, Little Falls, NJ

SAP FICO Lead

Area of Work: FI- GL, AP, AR, AA and Controlling

Responsibilities:

Lead, managed and implemented Business Process Transformation road map, process design and implementation of S4 Hana (1709).

Involved in AS-IS study process, requirement gathering, user requirement specifications and workshops and TO-BE process design.

Creation of partner profile and EDI compatible payment methods to send outbound in the form of IDOC’s.

Worked on new asset accounting Implementation and clearly learned about FI-AA integration with universal journal entry, Data Structure changes and compatibility views, Parallel valuation, key configuration consideration in Ledger approach in multiple currency environment, changes in legacy data transfer, importance of technical clearing GL account

Worked on NWBC configuration for entire Bank module and provided trainings to the end user for creating New Bank accounts and masters without transport request.

Worked on S/4 HANA 1709 for client Cantel in writing functional specks for various objects like ACH, WIRE and Check payment file processing.

Worked on S/HANA Fiori apps usage and to develop changes to intercompany reconciliation process.

Worked on positive pay and Lockbox file interface development area closely work with technical person.

Learned major changes in S/4 HANA pertaining to general ledger area, cost elements and asset accounting balance transfer, posting depreciation options and removal of transaction types.

Worked on Canada, US lockbox configuration and involved in rigorous testing with the specific record types.

Creation of partner profile and EDI compatible payment methods to send outbound in the form of IDOC’s.

Configured payment program for various methods ACH, WIRE, and Direct Debit.

Involved in Creation of Dunning procedure, levels, charges, interests, language activation form changes and data update in the standard text.

Defining operative Chart of Account, Account Groups, and number ranges.

Coordinated the integration on efforts of FI/CO with SD, MM, based on functional requirements, automatic account assignment, maintaining revenue account determinations and revenue recognition.

Configured various internal order types, setup status profile for order type, maintained settlement rules, internal order planning and budget profile and also set up tolerances for budget cost. Defined the settlement rules and used internal order with AUC/Capital investment projects.

Sep 2016 to March 2017

STX, Baltimore, MD

SAP FICO Lead

Area of Work: FI- GL, AP, AR, AA and Controlling

Responsibilities:

Lead all data migration activities throughout the project. Developed strategy for all the data migration (extract, cleaning, transformation, verification, and load) for SAP data objects. Determined and documented cutover plan activities for both functional and technical cutovers.

Led all the testing efforts through all testing phases (product test, UAT, regression testing) scope. Contributed to the design of the future data governance structure with Client and developed roadmap for future Data Conversion Implementations. Managed change process including test plans and end-user documentation.

Involved in AS-IS study process, requirement gathering, user requirement specifications and workshops and TO-BE process design.

Worked on end to end implementation S/4 HANA 1709 project for STX used LTMC tool for uploading open balances for customers, vendors, GL, CC, PC and asset.

Worked on EBS configuration with many Banks along with creation of search strings for the purpose of assigning single external transaction types to multiple posting rules.

Prepared Business process, configuration and end user document.

Prepared workflow, process design, configuration, development and testing of various RICEFW objects.

Worked on new asset accounting Implementation and clearly learned about FI-AA integration with universal journal entry, Data Structure changes and compatibility views, Parallel valuation, key configuration consideration in Ledger approach in multiple currency environments.

Understand clearly on changes in legacy data transfer and importance of technical clearing GL account.

Functional Specification Documents Prepared Direct FI Customer Invoice, Vendor Remittance Advice Form, Check printing Form, dunning form and closely worked with technical person for various scenarios testing as per the business requirements.

Creation of partner profile and EDI compatible payment methods to send outbound in the form of IDOC’s.

Worked on US lockbox configuration and involved in rigorous testing with the specific record types.

Configured the controlling area, cost elements, cost centers, number ranges, and cost center hierarchy.

Configured profit center hierarchy and created profit centers and dummy profit center.

Jan 2016 to Aug 2016

Cooper Standard Automotive Inc, Novi, MI

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Area of Work: FI- GL, AP, AR and Inter Company billing

Responsibilities:

Worked on intercompany billing process which is called (Maquila) with which company is benefited by duty and tariff-free.

Exclusive worked with technical team sales and distribution team to develop interface for auto billing invoice postings.

Created new document types and classified document types for document splitting.

Maintain PA transfer structure for direct postings and to update desired value fields.

Worked on Maquila integrated invoice report to accurately match the details of the original customer statistical invoice.

Tested on Cash application program to allow to continue to manage accounts receivable cash application for SAP generated invoices in the same manner they do with invoices interfaced from legacy system.

Involved in unit and integration testing, prepared test scripts for day in live.

Imparted training to End users and power users in APP run to generate IDOC, validate the segments and to verify the beneficiary account details.

Mar 2015 to Dec 2015

Broad green Pictures, Los Angeles, CA

SAP FICO Lead

Area of Work: FI- GL, AP, AR, AA

Responsibilities:

Worked as a SAP project lead on end to end for S/4 HANA 1610

Involved in requirement gathering, user requirement specifications and workshops and TO-BE process design.

Written functional specification documents for Vendor Remittance Advice Form, Check printing Form, dunning form.

Worked on portal-based Banking module configuration and provided training to the business user on new Bank account setup and Bank master creation.

Worked on LTMC migration cockpit to load trial balance of legacy business units and also used for various master data creation.

Worked on new asset accounting Implementation and learned about FI-AA integration with universal journal entry, Data Structure changes and compatibility views, Parallel valuation, key configuration consideration in Ledger approach in multiple currency environment, changes in legacy data transfer, importance of technical clearing GL account

Coordinated the integration on efforts of FI/CO with SD, MM, based on functional requirements, automatic account assignment, maintaining revenue account determinations and revenue recognition.

Jan 2014 to Feb 2015

Arthrex Inc, Naples FL

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Area of Work: FI- GL, AP, AR, AA and CO

Responsibilities:

Prepared workflow, process design, configuration, development and testing of various master data objects.

Customized Bank related accounting, Bank master data, house banks and G/L accounts in different currencies for each bank account and Electronic bank statement (EBS)

Configured and assigned PIUID codes with internal payment methods.

Configured payment program for various methods SEPA and Direct Debit.

Involved in Creation of Dunning procedure, levels, charges, interests, language activation form changes and data update in the standard text.

Worked on Plant abroad functionality and input/output tax code creation.

Maintaining Exchange Rate types and Foreign Currency valuation.

Provided training to the business user on special payment method SEPA.

Sep2010 to Dec2013

Colgate Palmolive, New York, NY

Sr. SAP FICO Consultant

Area of Work: FI-GL, AR, AP, AA and CO

Responsibilities:

Understand the importance of EU member in country level and VAT presence in Europe.

Worked on EDI setup to post intercompany purchase/sales invoice through program RSNAST00.

Worked on issues related to treasury sub modules Transaction Manager, In-House Cash credit and dispute management.

Involved in the project called CLM for testing the intercompany cash sweeping to ZBA account with the European Treasury Center.

Understand the importance of Bank area creation in treasury module (In House Cash)

Worked on GABA project which focused on removing file formats to sending IDOCS to CITI through EDI process and accepting inbounds in the BAI2 format.

Repaired many posting rules for smooth upload from Unix Server to R/3 system for Electronic Bank Reconciliation and created search strings for the same.

Provided functional specks to develop pre-processor program to replace with Bank key at position of Swift code before upload BAI2 file in the system.

Worked on ISR Payment procedure which is exclusively for the country Switzerland where vendor account is in local post office.

Worked on changing the program logic to pay alternative payee for country Venezuela.

Provided training to the end user and super user on manual Bank statement upload and deletion.

Configured the controlling area, cost elements, cost centers, number ranges, and cost center hierarchy.

Configured profit center hierarchy and created profit centers and dummy profit center.

Coordinated the integration on efforts of FI/CO with SD, MM, based on functional requirements, automatic account assignment, maintaining revenue account determinations and revenue recognition.

Configured various internal order types, setup status profile for order type, maintained settlement rules, internal order planning and budget profile and also set up tolerances for budget cost.

Defined the settlement rules and used internal order with AUC/Capital investment projects.

June 2007 to August 2010

Parle Agro Pvt, Ltd. India

SAP FICO Consultant

Area of Work: FI-GL, AR, AP, and CO

Responsibilities:

Definition and assignment of various organizational units in FI representing the organizational structure- Company, Company Code, Business Area.

Maintain automatic account determination for cash discount given/taken.

Maintain Fiscal Year, Posting Periods including special posting periods.

Activated extended Withholding tax and defining different tax types for payment posting and invoice posting.

Created alternative reconciliation account for customer and vendor down payments.

Created document types and changed field status group for special requirement.

Creation of House Banks, Assigning Bank Accounts to House Banks, creation of check lots.

Defining operative Chart of Account, Account Groups and number ranges.

Creation of account assignment model and recurring entry execution

Defining Interest indicators for balance interest calculations type.

Set up cash journals and business transactions for the same.

LSMW: Checking of Legacy data accuracy, data cleaning and preparation of Legacy data into SAP format and uploading of Legacy data into SAP system.

Worked on month end, quarter/year end activities.

Responsible for Configurations in Assets like, Copying reference Chart of Depreciation, made required settings for account determination, asset classes, screen layout rules, defining number ranges, valuation of assets in different depreciation areas, external asset acquisition, in-house asset acquisition, cross company code transfers, settings for depreciation runs, creation of depreciation keys in multilevel methods, assign forms for asset class, Asset Explorer, Settings for automatic account assignment ( FI-AA Integration).

Training and Documentation of all relevant process UAT (User Acceptance Testing), Integration Testing, Test Scripts arranging and coordinating the testing activities, Trouble Shooting. Cut off procedures along with uploading and tallying of legacy assets and the future depreciations etc., - Support and Maintenance of the System.

Imparted training to End users and power users in GL, AP, AR and Asset accounting.

Accounts Payables (AP): Payments in advance processing, Bill wise payment processing, Supplier Bills, tracking balance pending payments, Tax on Sales on Purchases and Extended withholding Tax (EWT).

Functional Experience:

Feb 2003 to Mar 2007

Banjara Cements Limited

Accounts Executive

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